Rie Moore

Biography

Based on her belief that a recital is a space where an artist can offer holistic experience for audience members, Rie Moore has created and performed unique programs.  As if heard from within featured works by multiple composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Scriabin, Federico Mompou, and Arvo Pärt, to invite the audience to listen from within in the dark. Pairs allowed the listeners to experience each piece in a new context based on six pairings: Two (Unusual) Lullabies, Transformation, Two Sides of the Moon, Mysticism, A Winter Landscape, and The End. Thorns for voice and piano featured lieder by Robert Schumann, including Dichterliebe, op. 48, to explore both love and the pain of love. Fleeting for solo piano and voice captured what attracts us to fleetingness through the eyes of composers from different periods, including Claude Debussy, Henry Cowell, Sergei Prokofiev, George Crumb, and Robert Schumann, while traveling through fleeting sounds, fleeting landscapes, fleeting visions, and fleeting moments.

In 2020, she received an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council for her program As if heard from within. In 2021, she premiered her first prerecorded program for solo piano Beyond Darkness, sponsored by the St. Mary’s County Arts Council, to invite listeners to imagine what may lie beyond darkness, and appeared as one of the speakers at the TEDxGreatMills event to talk about a new approach to concert programming. She was also awarded a Creativity Grant by the Maryland State Arts Council for an initiative to launch Project Decaying to invite community members to create artworks that express beauty in what is decaying and to premiere Decaying, a prerecorded program for piano and violin on the same theme in January 2022. In June 2022, she was invited to perform at PianoTexas International Festival & Academy and performed as one of the 39 competitors at the Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition in October 2022. Most recently, she was invited to perform in Baltimore as one of the 8 performing artists featured in the Maryland Arts Directory Triennial Exhibition (a juried exhibition) organized by the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) and Maryland Art Place (MAP) in May 2023.  

After earning her Bachelor of Arts in International Politics, Economics and Business from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, Rie Moore worked for global corporations, including Microsoft, Starbucks, and Nissan Motor in Tokyo as a marketing and communications professional prior to her move to Maryland in 2007. Her wide-ranging work experience in Tokyo includes launching and marketing new products, working in the field of investor relations as an IPO project member, organizing media events, and serving as an interpreter and translator to facilitate communication among Japanese and non-Japanese executives and designers. Inspired by her experience at the Piano Festival by the River at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Rie Moore began studying with Brian Ganz, a laureate of the Marguerite Long Jacques Thibaud and the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competitions, and a member of the piano faculty at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, which eventually led to completing her second bachelor’s degree in music at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in May 2019. She was awarded Alice Fleury Zamanakos and Arthur S. Zamanakos Prize in Music upon graduation. 

She is currently a member of the piano faculty at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and serves as an accompanist for the College’s Chamber Singers and elite voice ensemble PING, both directed by Larry Vote. Her broad collaborative experience includes Schicksalslied, op. 54 by Johannes Brahms, A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28 by Benjamin Britten, opera Amahl and Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti, Messiah, HWV 56 by George Frideric Handel, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, Dichterliebe, op. 48 by Robert Schumann, and Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Cello and Piano, H. 315 by Bohuslav Martinů. She also serves as a collaborative pianist at Ballet Caliente in California, Maryland.